Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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Venus favors the bold.
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My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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Extremes, though, are always risky and ordinarily downright baneful, and the dangers of prolonged contact with any poetry that seems to exceed what we most familiarly know of the first-class are formidable.
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Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially.
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I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.
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Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.
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I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.
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No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
